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On the trip home on the train, I started thinking about some things. First was I never found a wand on Dumbledore's body. There are two options for this, 1 it burnt up and that's it. That would make it so the 3 hollows were not made by death and just some very good artifacts created a long time ago. I would love for that to be true then that means I wouldn't have to worry that there is a personification of death. Because if there is a personification of death, then there could be of others.
The second option would be that the pressure blast was so big that the flimsy little stick could have been blasted anywhere the wind could have taken it. I think I will ask the elves to comb the area just in case, and if they find it, lock it up with the horcruxes. The reason for this is because Dumbledore looked so old and he was a little over a hundred and when I read in the paper that a wizard was over 700, I am scared it's the damn stick that caused him to age to fast. I will stick with my own wand and learn spells wandlessly thank you very much. Plus that stick is very recognizable with being Grindelwald and then Dumbledore's. If I show up using it then bad things might happen.
I am so happy I wore a full Red Oni tactical costume including the mask when I was searching the ground for live people. The reason is because I just realized even if no one lived the wraith of Voldemort could have seen me if it stuck around. I need to get to Harrys head and the ring. The shed I think I will learn fiend fire and then launch it at the shack. At the same time I will have a port key that activates if I say "shit" out loud. And it gets me away if I lose control. That way I know the stone will be gone, because fiend fire is supposed to eat all magic and I think the ring will be a nice snack. I would love to have the stone but there's a curse on it, to use it so much you die of magical exhaustion. Then add in all the compulsions and other things that not even Dumbledore could ignore I'm going to say fuck that and just torch the damn thing. For Harry I am going to have to convince him that surgery is the right choice but who would let a 15 year old operate on them.
Another thing I was thinking about is Harry Potter in general. So far the only thing I have been doing is getting him a box of Powerbars and a liter of water every night for him. I couldn't do much more for him because of Dumbledore reading his mind and finding out I was helping him. If that happened, a few obliviates and memory mods and everyone thinks I moved away. Nope wasn't going to let that happen, so I stayed out of his life. But now that he's dead I think I can sit Harry down and have a talk with him, if he listens to me that's another thing all together.
I need to talk to him about a lot of stuff so I think I will grab him on the way to meet his uncle. I will just steer him away and have a chat just me and him at a café. But the most important thing I have to tell him is to stop running around telling everyone he's back. I have to convince him that he's alerted everyone, so now it's not his responsibility anymore. He needs to stop the whole I need to save everyone stick, because he will die with that attitude and being a Gryffindor.
I will also have to see if I can use the assholes body to test and see if I can regrow a limb. I know it will take a bit because I will have to drain him a number of times of his own blood. Because I haven't yet checked if replenished blood from a potion will work. I want my findings to be real so I will have to drain him a number of times. Each time waiting for his own blood cells to be reproduced so I can know if it works with his blood to get a base line. Then I can try with blood that I replenish from a potion and see if there's a difference. I am happy that he is a vegetable because he doesn't react to pain or anything he's just a lump of breathing meat. Some people might think its torcher but if there is no consciousness to torture then I don't see an issue. I'm just using a person who should get a death penalty, as a body for science. I know it's lose and wishy washy justification but I don't care it's what I decided and I could care less about these blights on humanity.
Also I need to find out a new game to play with TK for everyone. I might use 2 different ones now one will be for strength of my TK and the other will be for super fine control. I will make the planes out of aluminum and use them to try and destroy the others now and for fine control I will use a hour glass. With the hour glass I will try and move the sand from the lower part to the upper part and keep it there. From there I can just keep adding hour glasses and making it harder for myself when I feel it's too easy to do just the number am working on.
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As everyone got off the train we had told our parents we could get home ourselves and they agreed. I told the girls I had to do something and they should head home without me. They agreed and headed to the flow to get to the original house and from there to the island. Even Luna went with them because she told us we are not getting rid of her and she was going to live with us since I had an elf watching over and taking care of her dad for her.
After each girl had given me a full on tongue dual even Luna surprisingly, and then headed off while I was watching Harry. First off he walked up the Weasley's and Molly gave him a big hug, from there they looked like they talked a while. Well more like Molly talked and Harry listened. After that he headed to the entrance to the muggle side. When I saw him head there I quickly followed so I would come right up behind him as he was passing through. When he got through before he could look around for the Aunt and Uncle I clapped him on the shoulder and said.
"Harry I need a word with you."
"Mark? What do you want?"
"I have some things to talk to you about and I think you should come with me. If you're worried about getting home I will pay for a cab."
"But my uncle and aunt are waiting and they will get angry if I stand them up."
"Harry at the end of our discussion, I don't think you will care about what they feel. Just give me a little faith we will go to a café and sit and eat and drink something in full view of the public. You can feel safe knowing that I can't do anything to you in front of so many people."
"I guess, since you seem to think it's important to me."
After that I led him to a café and we got a table on the patio that we could see the road and the train station. I just casually asked about school and everything and how he liked it till our food arrived. We each got simple roast beef sandwiches and a large glass of iced tea.
"Ok first things first. We can talk about anything in the open but honestly who the hell is going to believe two teenagers talking about magic. To add to that I am going to give you a dungeons and dragons book to hold while I have one to."
I pass him one from my bag that I had Maggie retrieve for me on the train after I sent the elves off to find a wand.
"Ok now that we are sufficiently camouflaged, so you don't pass out from worry I want to ask you something."
Looking a little confused Harry just looked at the book and then to me and said "ok".
"Do you believe it's your responsibility to save everyone?"
"What?"
"Exactly what I said, because you are running around telling everyone he is back."
"But he is back, him and Dumbledore ended up fighting."
"Exactly so why does this affect you, a 15 year old who is in school. You can't fight him or his death eaters, so why does it affect you. You have told everyone so you have fulfilled your supposed obligation in letting them know he's back. Now let them deal with it."
"But no one believes me and we need to do something."
"I believe you, but again why do we as school kids need to do something, when we have Aurors who are trained to deal with this. And they are actually paid to step into harm's way where a kid like us could die."
"So where supposed to just sit and do nothing."
"Well you could train yourself to get better. But you will never be as good as him and why should you have to be? Didn't you already save the wizarding world already once and lose your family over it?"
"….."
"See you did it, you did more than a lot of people. And if you want to not have to worry about your safety, you could just move to anywhere in the world."
"No I can't I'm 15, and I have to stay with my aunt and uncle. Dumbledore said it would keep me safe there, because of blood wards that have been erected."
"Uh hu, and did he ever tell you about other properties you own, that you could pay the goblins to ward it for you with all you money that could kill anyone trespassing on your property?"
"What? What are you talking about I just have my trust vault, sure there's a lot of gold there but I can't buy a place with that. And what are you talking about all my money?"
"You do know that you probably have a family account manager for the Potter money right? It's called a trust vault it's for you not your family. Where do you think it gets money from if you ever emptied it?"
"What? How do you know this?"
"Umm everyone knows you have money. And if no one's told you then I am scared for you about what they have planned for you and your money, if you don't know about it."
"The only people who I talk to are Ron and Seamus. And they haven't said anything because they probably don't know."
"Really because I know with the way Ron acts because his family isn't well off, and he just has this air of jealousy around him when other people talk about new things they got. He would know about anything that could get him money. Add to that he is a pureblood and he would know all about family vaults. And Seamus is a half-blood so I can maybe understand him not knowing. But what about when McGonagall took you to the bank to pay for school?"
"Hagrid took me and why would McGonagall take me?"
"Hagrid? They sent the games keeper to bring you to the Alley? Wow Harry they must not like you."
"What are you talking about Hagrid was very nice and told me lots of things about the wizarding world."
"Uh hu." I reach into my back and pull out the pamphlet that I hand out to everyone who enters the alley when it's shopping time for new students.
"Read this and we will talk more after you're done."
As I sit there I wave over to the waitress and ask for a slice of cheese cake while I wait for Harry to get done. While eating I watch him and he looks not as scrawny as he was portrayed In the book so I think the Powerbars help him. When he finally looks up I interrupt him before he can say anything.
"So the Powerbars and the water have been helping I take it. I see you're not as scrawny as first year. Do your relatives not feed you?"
"What, how do you know about that? Are you the one who sent me those? I always thought it was Ron or Dumbledore who sent them."
"Why would someone who doesn't live in the muggle world send you Powerbars, they are a muggle product and even the water should have had a label on it."
"Yea I never thought of that. Why did you send them to me and how did you send them to me. Dumbledore told me that I was safe there from magic that would be used against me."
"Harry I sent them to you because you looked like you haven't eaten all summer, and you wear the clothes of a street bum. I can obviously tell your home life is tearable. And add to the fact that anyone can get to you at your house it's not that hard for me to get something to you especially through a house elf. Hell they could just walk in with a gun and shoot you."
"You know Dobby?"
*POP*
"The great Harry Potter called?"
We both whip our heads under the table cloth and see a house elf standing there.
"Dobby what are you doing here?"
"The great Harry Potter called my name and I came as quickly as I could." The elf said proudly.
I interrupted all this as quickly as I could.
"Dobby I need you to get of here because it's not safe, and then show up next time Harry calls for you. Before you leave I need to know if you are a free elf."
"Yes I be a free elf"
With that he popped away after saying that.
"What the hell was he doing here?"
I just rub the bridge of my nose.
"Ok to start things off elves are bonded to a person or a family and feed off their magic to survive. In compensation for them feeding off your magic they try to make your life easier by cleaning and cooking for you, and anything else you need done. And since you obviously know this guy and he is a free elf you could bind him to you so he doesn't die. If you call for him later when your alone he can show you how to do it."
"Wow."
"Yep. So now back onto the topic, house elves are a race that lives with wizards and witches but I don't know there origins to know if they were created or born. Now onto your living conditions, I don't think you should go back to your relative's house. You should own many houses now that you are the Potter heir and everything that your parents owned should have been given to you."
"But the goblins didn't tell me anything about this."
"And why would they?"
"What!"
"If you don't use it and somehow you die and don't leave it to anyone eventually it will all be there's through vault fee's, and they play the long game so why would they care if you knew about it or not. Maybe they might have later in life when they think you would want to invest in things so they can get more money from you, for fee's unless someone already told them you don't want anything to do with your money right now."
"Who would do that?"
"Well I know 1 person. But we can get back to that after you go to the goblins and ask for your account manager and find a home you want to live at. You can then ask them. For a fee of course. On if there are wards there and what to do about them, and add more of them if you want to a bigger place for a fee. Just to let you know the goblins live off fee's and will try and take all the money you have first chance they get."
"That's bullshit! And why aren't you telling me about the person you think is doing this to me?"
"Because if I tell you, you probably won't believe me so it's better for you to figure it out and come to your own conclusions."
"Ok so why are you talking to me right now then."
"That's easy. Dumbledore isn't watching you anymore."
"…..what?"
"Dumbledore is not watching everything you do anymore. Isn't he your magical guardian?"
"Yes he is but that doesn't make sense why would he watch me."
"Because you're Harry Potter."
"That doesn't make sense. So what if I'm Harry Potter!"
"Well that's because you had a lot of power before you came to school. Because you didn't do anything with it like build alliances with people. Having Ron chase away everyone who wanted to talk to you saying you don't have time for them, and ignoring all your fan mail. Your influence has diminished. I still don't know why you would do that I'm sure Dumbledore taught you all that because he was supposed to as your magical guardian along with managing any betrothal contracts you might get."
"Wait, no stop right there. What the hell are you talking about? I didn't meet Dumbledore till first year."
"Um sorry to say this, but he's been telling everyone you have been safe and he has been taking care of your safety and education."
"FUCK! What the fuck is wrong with you people every year its some shit after another, and now you're saying I'm offending people because I am not answering mail I never got. And that Ron is apparently chasing away people on my say so?!"
"Sorry to say it's the truth. You're fucking Harry Potter every girl would have been all over you no matter if you were 11 when you showed up in the magical world again. Right now you should be having girls trying to have your babies. So tell me how many have you met and done something with?"
"None, I have only one girl after me, and that's Ginny it looks like."
"Uh hu and I bet Ron doesn't chase her away."
"No he doesn't."
"And when you got on the train on the first year you had soooo many people coming to say hi to you right especially girls."
"Only Ron showed up. But then Malfoy did with his book ends."
"And what did everyone tell you about the houses that you met before the sorting?"
"That Slytherin were evil and my parents where Gryffindor's and so was Dumbledore."
"Uh hu. Well you just think about that stuff, and I would tell you to go to the goblins and have them check you over for spells and potions. They will do it for a fee but I would make them do everything they can. Just saying."
"But I want more answers."
"I know you do, but you need time to think about things after the goblins get through with you. Oh yea, don't go back to your relatives, go to a place you own. I don't want to have to send you more food just because you're too scared to ask them for a place to stay that you own. I think you have been in that prison long enough."
"Why are you doing this?"
"I'm a Hufflepuff. Didn't you know that's what we do? And if you need to contact me I'm sure after you bond Dobby he can get a message to me or send your owl."
I then get up to leave, and place two £20 notes on the table to pay for everything.
"Bye Harry. Get back to me in a week or two I would love to know what you find out. Oh yea let your owl out and don't put her back in a cage she knows where to go."
With that I headed back to the train station and tried to get back into the magical area. Luckily it is open longer on the return trip because I guess they leave it open so people have longer to leave. I head to the flow to make sure I can get home in any reasonable time.
I had left it all there because I wanted him to think on everything I told him. I don't want him to think I am trying to pressure him into anything, and I gave him just enough to get him to do certain things. Plus if he is under wards there is no way the dementors will get to him, this summer because I don't know if he knows the Patronus. I want him to live but at the same time I am not going to go out of my way to keep him safe. He's not my problem, if he trusts me in the end I might tell him he needs lots of therapy for all the shit that happened in his life. Hell even a move and a name change. But he's to much of a "hero" to agree with the stuff I have planned so he ain't joining umbrella. He's been conditioned too much.
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When I got home to the island the girls grabbed me as I exited the access box. From there they dragged me to the beach and started to strip me down to nothing and then stripped themselves and ran into the ocean. I just smiled and ran into the water with them to relax a bit after the conversation I had with Harry. This wasn't normal for us to strip on the beach but since we change all the time in front of each other this year nudity hasn't become a problem for us. It doesn't hurt that they look damn good with all the exercise they do and healthy eating. They aren't crazy ripped but they are nicely toned, to the point you can bounce a quarter off any body part.
After a nice swim, we came back to the beach and laid out on a large towel that was supplied by some forward thinking elves. As we were laying there the elves brought us some sandwiches because at home it would be dinner time. It's always weird coming here and the time difference of 13 hours. Because now 6 at night at home is 7 in the morning here. Luckily our bigger core seam to help with the energy issue, but we still take naps to adjust to the time difference and it doesn't take that long. We could do pepperup potions but I prefer to just snuggle with these girls and nap with them, it's much more enjoyable.
After we were done eating the girls had some stuff they needed to tell me. They let me no in no uncertain terms, that I could sleep with Luna if she wanted it, because Krum was just there for fun because I refused to sleep with her. The reason for this is she didn't want a relationship, but she liked sex a lot. Sure she was a year younger than me, but she had been in Krum's bed for a few months but when she heard from the girls how much longer we lasted. She then did everything in her power to convince Halley and Hermione that she wouldn't steel me. That she just wanted fun sex between friends. I am not going to turn down casual sex that hard because I know it would just start a fight for no reason. The reason I don't want this is because in my last life I think I had sex at least once a day from when I was 16 to 20, when I first started to have sex. If you add in 3 girls and how long we can last before we get tired because of how good of shape we were in, then I would get nothing done. I would need to use a time turner just to get things done that wanted accomplished. When I told the girls this they understood and would understand if I didn't want to sleep with them that day.
In my head I was thinking yea right and I resolved myself to finding out a way to tired them out faster when we were having sex or give them more pleasure to tire them out. Either way there was no way I would turn them down, because that would put death flags up for me with the relationship I have with them. And the last thing I want is them to go looking elsewhere for satisfaction. God damn Luna and her puppy eyes, along with being friends with us. With 2 girlfriends that aren't jealous of each other because I give them each a lot of alone time it's just a slippery slope, with a friend that just wants to use your boyfriend for sex. I don't want this to come up with any other girl. I need to find a way to get Luna a serious boyfriend so she just doesn't care about getting one, because she has everything here with us 4 together. Gahhhh if this isn't a first world problem I don't know what is.
After that Luna proceeded to drag me back into the ocean to "try something new". Sex in the water sucks, but we still did it even though Luna got pouty afterwards because it wasn't as fun as she expected. I told her is more about the thrill of being caught than anything else. That gave her a faraway look and I wanted to kick myself for saying anything.
After a week I went and met with this year's recruits from the house and a few older people who had heard from friends of the people in the company that they enjoyed their job. This was much better in their opinion then just being a file clerk in the ministry or something worse. Some of them wouldn't tell me and just said they hated their managers. They all went through the same things as everyone else, and were given occlumency books and others and told what was to happen. With the amount of people working for me and how I based everything on how hard they worked. (had elves check up on them) People who had been with me for a while showed them what to do and what was expected. I even had some people start to take correspondence courses for mechanical and chemical engineering. I had no issue with this, and I just told them to take all the notes and such and put them into books to add to the library. So people could read it if they wanted to learn it themselves later on. It took about 2 days to sort everyone out but the people from the ministry had the happiest faces when they learned about their pay and the vacation houses that I kept buying based on the list the dorm house had.
The only issue was that the dorm house had to be expanded because people didn't feel like they needed their own place till they wanted to settle down, when they had access to everything they would want there for only 5% of their pay. The house elf's where loving it though, because they even had to get another one to help in the kitchen, because people where coming and going at all hours of the day there because of the vacation houses and there time zones.
On the legal and accounting side everything was running on its own and our accountants have even picked up some other side business from other house flippers and small 1 - 3 man businesses. To help justify the work they do there because they have the whole house flipping streamlined in a quick and easy spread sheet, and didn't want to let go people they needed in the beginning. I didn't mind that we took on other people as clients because it just meant we looked more respectable to everyone and not just doing everything in house. The reason why they were able to do this is because whenever they needed something from computer programs to training and finally more room I just got it for them. But the money just didn't get wasted because with these improvements if brought in more customers because of quickness and ease of use. The old adage of you have to spend money to make money was true.
Now I just needed to find out how to get a broker in japan so I can sell material and my sapphire sheets. The reason I chose japan is that they work more on the high end so they are always using precious metals and stuff for the computer and electronics industry. There whole country mostly imports raw materials or finished goods that can get assembled there for better quality control. So for a week I spent there in the form of Howard Hue's, talking to people that the law firm in California suggested to me. I didn't want to rush anything because I still needed to set up a dock on the island and buy a boat to import the material to japan.
I would ship from my island to Fiji and from there I would send it to Australia or japan depending on how the shipping route there works. The biggest thing is I will have to get one of the people who works for me a boat that can handle one or two containers and have them deliver it. I need to show they came from somewhere outside of the country so they won't try to inspect the conditions it was produced at. The boat only needs to travel around 250km so it's not that long of a trip, about a day there and a day back. I will just build a dock on the NE side, out of the ever popular granite. I will just need to get a trailer and a jeep to move the containers from the hanger by the landing strip so if people wanted to check by air they would think it comes from there. It takes more work to make things look legal then just selling gold but I want to make a name for Umbrella so eventually I can just claim everything is done in-house and I can stop doing this from the island. But I need money and power to make people go away. But hopefully I can eventually get to space and build up there, but I can't build everything. I will need to buy from earth electronics, and other stuff that would be pointless to build up there if I can get a large access box built in space to make easy transport of things. God I hate this pointless nonsense but once built, I can just give it over to lawyers to deal with, it's what they are paid for.
While out in japan while eating dinner, I was strolling in a park when a nice big white owl came sailing to me. I guess my elves must have stopped Dobby from getting to me on the island. Oh well I should thank them for that, because I don't want to worry about spy elves or them leaving cursed items or poison. Thank god for grateful elves, some have even had kids that they have told me about. I told them I didn't mind as long as they could survive off me and the girls. I didn't want them bound to anyone else because this way they will stay with me and my family but also help my employees, so they don't need to think about getting their own elves. There powers are too easy to abuse even with the best of reasons, just take into account what Maggie did for her parents. With me being the bond holder if they don't like someone they just won't help them no need to kill anyone.
The letter said that he is staying at the leaky cauldron till one of his places is renovated and the wards updated and was wondering if we could talk some more. I told Hedwig to wait and she just looked at me with some very intelligent eyes. I then opened up my brief case that I was caring and quickly wrote a note saying I could have lunch with him in a week and put the date down, and we could talk in his room. I then put it in an envelope and gave it to Hedwig and told her it was for Harry. She bobbed her head and took off again. I don't know how long it would take her to get back to harry so that is why I put down the date just in case she is not magicaly faster, or has something else going on with her to get to places quicker, because I don't see a normal owl getting to japan from England.
One thing that I did think of, is getting the spells and runes that were made to make the Weasley clock and try to use them on some portkey bracelets. So that means if they know you're in mortal danger they will automatically trigger and take you to a safe point. Maybe even try and find something that can tie into your health to take you to a medical center if anything goes wrong. Or if you're a doctor and a patient comes in like that it can port you to the patient so you don't always need to be at the hospital. I will have to ask those researchers if they can do that because a few more have joined there group and this should be an easy exercise. And if we don't have the spells about the clock I am not opposed to bribing Ron to steal it for a bucket of galleons.
Also I need to owl Amelia and ask if they still have Tom's diary and if they do they need to get the goblins to destroy it. Hopefully she still has access to it and can make it happen without needing any answers from me.
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After a week of building a dock and a road leading to the airstrip, it was time to go see harry at the Cauldron. When I made it there I looked around and noticed it was 11:45 and I didn't see him. So I grabbed a seat in the corner and ordered an iced tea and waited for him to show up. At 12:05 he showed up alone and that was good, he also had a clean forehead. There was no scar so I guess the goblins of this universe can get rid of those things. He then saw me and proceeded to sit down and ordered a Butter Beer.
"So I take it you had a good few weeks?" I asked.
He scowled at me and then smiled. "You could say that but I'm guessing you can guess what I discovered."
"I can take a guess along with the fact you don't have a scar also tells me some things. But we can wait to talk about this after your finished lunch."
"Ok."
We then both ordered something to eat and both ate quite quickly and he then showed me to his room.
"So want to let me know what happened, so I can answer your questions easier?"
"Fine but only since you were the one who told me most of the stuff anyways, out of everyone I know. ok so the first thing I did after you left was going into the bathroom and calling for Dobby. Once he showed up I asked him if I could bond him and he said yes he would love to. I asked him how he could be my elf now and who was his previous one? He told me it was Lucius Malfoy and he was his personal elf. He told me he was dead so that's why he could be my elf. I then went to Diagon Alley by foot because I had no cash on me."
"Sorry."
"It's ok; it gave me time to think. When I got there I went to Gringotts and asked for the potter account manager and they directed me to a goblin called sharp fang. When I asked him what he does for my account, he then told me everything he does and returns he gets me. He told me he would charge me 100g an hour for him to spend his time telling me everything in detail if I wanted and I said no. next thing I ask is for him to get me completely scanned for anything wrong with me. I knew some things would show up but not others. The big thing was my scar that they demanded I pay them 1000g to remove right then and there and told me they didn't know how I was alive right now. You wouldn't happen to know what they told me about what it was?"
"I might and I might not. I'm sure they told you everything I think I know about them and you don't need to worry about them because it's not your issue like I told you. You just helped everyone again by getting rid of the one in your head. By the way how did they do that?
"Ok… the way it happened was they put a bunch of runes around it and then cut the skin and my scull off around the runes so the runes when with the skin and piece of skull. They then tossed that down to the dragon blast furnaces they told me in the end. I was later told what it was and what they do and they destroy everyone one of them they find, because they are not rare in Egypt in the tombs down there. They also gave me a lot of potions to help build up all the weight I should have on me from not getting enough food. When I mentioned I had been eating a lot of power bars in the summer they hummed and hawed and told me it had helped so I wouldn't need as much but I did have to drink so many disgusting ones."
"Glad they helped."
"I then asked about any properties I own, and apparently I own none here in England because the magical government took the house in Godric's Hollow. But I do have multiple ones around the world."
"So I take it you are going to live in one of them?"
"What, no. I had them buy me an apartment here in London that I can use and to ward it to hell and back. Why would I stay in one thats in another country?"
Well you could practice magic and no one would tell. You might want to see the world. And a portkey can bring you right back here whenever you want to come back for school."
"I hadn't thought of that actually."
"Want to sell those other properties?"
"What?"
"Do you want to sell off those other properties?"
"What? Umm I don't know can I get back to you on that and how do you have the money to buy them your 15 like me."
"I have some money lying around and I want some vacation houses around the world. I also have some house elves that are bonded to me that need some work to keep them busy."
"Oh. Well I'll think about it but only because I don't know what to do with them and having all of them seems pointless."
"So did you think over those other things I told you about."
"yea I did I owled a bunch of people in my house and asked them some questions especially about what Ron says behind my back and what they told me, I don't know how someone can be like that and still call you there friend."
"Well it's an easy fix isn't it. Just dump him as a friend, you have an entire school that wants to be your friend and you still have time before you leave to make them change their mind about what they think about you. Have you read what the profit is saying about you?"
"Yes I have, and why are they saying those things. They keep putting me and Dumbledore down."
"Well that's easy. You're rocking the boat, and the ministry is run on bribes. And most of those bribes come from imperioused death eaters."
"WHAT!"
"You don't believe me? The entire wizarding world is crooked and if anyone try's to change that they are disappeared or found guilty of something. But with you they have to either make you look insane or catch you doing something, so they can send you away to prison."
"You have got to be kidding me. What the hell is wrong with these people?"
"There happy being sheep and as long as it doesn't affect them then they could care less what happens to people who aren't them. As long as there not bothered then why bother seems to be there philosophy. That why I told you that you have already done enough and to just leave it alone."
"Oh my god and I thought the magical world would be my freedom from all of my problems."
"Well why can't it? You did get your Potter vaults right?"
"Yes…"
"And you have at least a couple hundred thousands of galleons right?"
"Yes…"
"So shut up this year do nothing say nothing and leave. Turn all your money into £ and move somewhere other than Europe. Fuck everyone else; no one says you need to stay here. You can just get up and live a muggle life. Go back to school and be whatever you want. Why stay here? Me, Halley, Hermione and possibly Luna are gone after this year. Because we only need our owls to so that no one can get us for not going to school and having legal rights to obliviate us."
Harry just stares at me with an open mouth.
"What about your parents?"
"Oh that's easy we are moving them also, because we told them about the crazy people here that think its ok to kill muggles just because, like what happened at the world cup."
"But where are you going to live and be able to do magic."
"I don't need to do magic but if I do I will have warded my house so no one can trace magic there. the goblins can do that for you also. Hell I suggest you buy a place in Hawaii and go to school, meet some normal girls and hangout on the beach and be a beach bum for a while and just relax. I'm sure you have never gotten to relax before. Just remember shut up and do nothing for 1 more year, then get passing grades and run for it don't let anyone know or they might try and find you if anything goes wrong. Because your there hero who should protect them because your you."
"But, but what? I can't do that."
"Yet again why not? Who said you had to fight to protect people who in the end won't care for more than a week if you die. They will just prop someone else up and tell them to go fix their lives. Harry I'm not going to make your decision for you but why do you care. It's like someone trained you to sacrifice your happiness to make sure others are happy. You might not like this but maybe you should go and talk to a shrink. Don't tell them about magic but just tell them about your life so far. I'm sure it will help and get a lot off your chest."
"….."
"Just think about it and trust me, it won't hurt and they are not allowed to tell anyone unless you are going to hurt yourself or others. If you want I can send you an address of one and book your first appointment for you. Oh yea before I forget buy yourself a game system and every game you can think of and don't leave this place or your new place. I'm sure there are people that are going to try and frame you for something so it's best not to use your magic. Make Dobby do everything even getting your school supplies. If you need food have him get it. Just say inside and don't go out or cast magic in England."
"What….."
"You herd me just stay inside it's not that hard. Hell, do some weight lifting to keep you busy if you want, but don't go outside this summer."
"Fucking shit. This is not helping talking to you, and I can't even talk to Ron because of you."
"What do you mean. Oh don't give me that fucking shit you rat bastard, you know what you said last time and the more I think about it and people I mail I realize he was never my friend. He just wanted my fame and money."
"Uh hu, so what are you going to do about all this."
"Fuck I don't know." he then proceeded to hold his head and I just sat there watching him. It's kind of interesting to see where this will go. But at least he has all the facts that he needs to know about.
"Harry you have a whole year to decide this. No one said you had to decide this all now. Just relax and think about this calmly all year. This won't change anything other there instead of running off to accomplish something, just sit back and relax. If a teacher like Snape tries talking shit just smile and nod. Do you know how much it kills people inside like that when you don't acknowledge that they matter? All you have to do is smile and nod, that's it nothing more nothing less and they can't do anything to you."
"But.."
"But nothing, like I said you have defeated him 2 times now so it's not your problem anymore. If anything you should think on what you want to do with your life. Because I am pretty sure you don't want to be an Auror even if you could with how much Snape hates you. You should be thinking of life after this, because if you want to live in the real world with any bit of being more than a beach bum then you need to get your high school equivalency if you want out of Europe. And who's going to expect you to end up in a house on the beach in Hawaii? Just think of all the girls your age you can meet in bikini's that are there for vacation, who just want some summer fun with a guy they know who doesn't know any of their friends."
Harry just looked off into the distance imagining it with the hormone addled mind he has right now. All guys our age are easy to point in a direction of scantily class girls.
"Ok mark I will think about it."
"Remember no leaving this place or your new one; just get Dobby to do it. Last thing that's needed is for you to get expelled or worse get sent to Azkaban for some stupid charges. Remember they want to make you look insane or a danger to the public right now. In a year from now you could be rubbing sun tan oil on a girls back on the beach, so what's a little indoors right now especially away from your relatives."
"Ok, ok I will stay inside."
"Good, did you need anything else?"
"Not that I know of, do you want to hang out some times in the summer? I think I will go crazy even if you tell me to get a bunch of video games."
I laughed and said sure but I needed to take off and that if he needed something just to let me no.
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It turns out the diary was still in an evidence room, and Amelia told me she would get it destroyed soon. She told me they destroy dark objects that have been in ministry possession every 5 years anyways but can do me a favor and do it now. She told me the only reason she would do this is because it had been notified by Gringotts that a number of deaths have occurred and they were filed with the ministry. And since Lucius was dead he wouldn't be on her back any more about claiming it for some reason. She knew he had something to do with it, but she had been able to put it off for a while but she was running out of excuses.
I was surprised to be told all this but I guess she must be grateful of everything I have done for her niece.
Over the summer I went over everything that was alchemy that was at the school at some point. This actually took me a full month of reading and trying to understand the logic of it because alchemy was part rituals part transfiguration and part potions. It was messed up, and I can see it was more along the lines of you know what you want in the end. From that you have to work out what is needed to do to get that outcome. And you keep going and going till you get to the basics of what needs to be done. Hell I even took the stone to some universities. One in America, another in England and a final one in Germany. I had paid them for the time to do some mass spectrometry or x-ray diffraction to try and to do nondestructive testing. They got some undergrads to do this for me for a pretty big fee but they were happy to take free money. While there I ordered every course book from the 3 universities that I went to.
It took a week to get all the books and get it paid for but I picked them all up at a storage unit I had them sent to. I then called some elves to take them to the library and scan them in. I think for the next month I will be reading everything on material science. But I'm sure it will take me a year or two playing around to even understand the two topics. But in the end I figure I have all the time in the world and it never hurts to know more, especially about alchemy because it's not taught anymore so I have to do small things by trial and error.
Later in the summer as I was walking around all the alleys in the magical world I found a clock shop that actually sold those Weasley clocks. I asked them if they had any books on it and they said no because it would ruin their business if they had competition. I tried to haggle with him and I finally asked him what it would take. He told me I would have to buy every clock and watch in the store. If I did that he would give me his books because he could retire then. I just laughed long and hard and said done. I don't think he expected me to do that, and it was just a spur of the moment idea for him. But in the end he did think about it and agreed. It cost me 370,000 galleons but in the end I don't care about the price. But what I did care about was all the books this guy has collected. He had so many family tomes, but gave them to me since he had no kids and I bought even the store from him.
While having the books scanned and given to R&D, I decided I needed to do something with this shop. I then decided I would stock it with pre prepared potions. I figure many people just want to buy stuff and not worry about them and if I sold them in a case that had a stasis charm on it and asked no questions I could get some business. As for the people needed for selling, I would just get one of my elves to sell to people. That way they will know when there needed and come to help and I don't have to pay someone full time to be here if no one wants anything. I figure if I don't ask questions and have a list people can buy and go within 5 min then I should at least get some business at least from the werewolves once a month.
Little did I know that the elves where still selling basic potions to St Mungo's and were getting better and better at making potions along with making harder ones. I had ended up forgetting about that but they didn't (chap 18). And when I told them to sell potions at the shop they just started to sell everything they were trying out that worked. They did sell them at appropriate prices that the market suggested, but some because of the length of time to create sold for more money than it was worth. Since I didn't pay attention to the shop after I said this to the air, the elves just went ahead and did it to add to stuff to keep them busy. It wouldn't be till much later that I remembered about the shop. My elves where very proactive because Maggie had decided to take control as head elf and wanted to make me proud since I gave them such happy lives. Eventually they end branched out to mail order because one customer needed a potion and didn't have the ability to come in. All this in the end was done without me realizing things I should have been taking care of, but because of school I had too much to think about.
Harry on the other hand did ask Mark over a few times that summer to talk and watch some TV. But there were never any more serious talks. He ended up just getting an apartment down town that was very spacious. I think he just wanted to be a regular kid and hangout with a friend. And right now I was his only friend in his opinion, till he can make some that don't know/care about Harry Potter. The more I hang around him just relaxing I think he will go for the Hawaii option. I did let him know that if he did take off we could still hang out whenever he wants. I had yet to tell him about the island and where I was going. I told him if no one knows then no one can follow and I didn't want to influence where he decided to go. When I let the girls know this I told them he can hang out with us after we leave at the end of the year.
By the end of the summer I actually did end up having sex with Luna more than just that one time. She didn't want any dates or anything she just wanted to be with us. If later on she wants to sleep with the girls I am going to tell them the same thing they told me. She did though end up moving into our room on the islands and I ended up making a closet for her just like the girls. It's very easy to do things like this with expanded spaces and magic.
On the hearth stone front I have been slowly adding wards to it, because every time I activate one I would either take a huge amount of magic from me to start it up if I did this the normal way. Or my way since I have laced the entire island with silver trunk lines. This made the island like our magic circulator system. It takes a charge from the blocks of sapphire I have placed around it, that have saved up energy, but it needs time to recharge so it doesn't try coming after me for the remaining power to start the ward. I don't think I will ever add the fidelius, because with all the information now a days I don't think I could get rid of an entire island without many questions being asked, about where boats go or the depth of the ocean around it. It's just best to make aversion wards and everything else to make it so people don't care about the island. If worse comes to worse I will have to make golems that can take care of intruders, but that's for when the year is over and I can spend time on things.
The shack that held the ring went up in smoke when I unleased a fiend fire at it and port keyed away. When I had an elf return to check it out from far away and then slowly move closer. It used it senses to feel if there was any magic around. I was told later that the land for 100m around the spot where I unleashed the flames was dead to them in every sense. After that I did go to the area and cast an Accio resurrection stone but nothing happened. So the fire must have devoured the stone, because it had to be there, because everything else was the same as the book when it came to those places that held it. The only thing I need to do is get harry to ask his god father about the locket that creature has. But how do I tell him I know about it? It would either mean me going to the original place and getting the fake and showing him the note and going from there or hoping I get invited over and stealing it.
One thing that didn't happen was no one went to grimmauld place this summer. I guess the reason for this is because without Dumbledore there, to push him black would never want to step foot in that house. And from there he didn't get a chance to tell everyone to live there in the summer. And since nothing happened after Harry said he's back, then no one panics because Dumbledore wasn't around to add credibility.
The tunnels under the island where about ¼ done, but they were just setup in a random pattern so that if anyone got in them they wouldn't know where to go. I might even decide to add another level of farming land later so I will leave the next 5 levels bare for now. When they are done I will have to set up all the normal runes in them to set up a workable farming area. Right now it's just basic lighting runes and expanding the space as big as I can. In the end I want each tunnel to have a difference species of plant, so that it's easy to know what's in what. Next will be all the different kinds of fruit trees and fruiting plants from all over the world. If there was a bit more space I might try getting a few with just grass in them so I can get some pigs and cows in there so I can use the manure to help fertilize the plants. But that will take a year or 2 in the end because I need to take soil from all over the place to put on all the granite on the floors. I'm sure I can powder the granite to help add nutrients to the soil but it needs more than that.
The reason for soil to be collected everywhere was because there is an area of 22 km2 of space without the expansion, if I was to use all the space of the island. I think I can try the stone to see if I can make it that way but I don't think so since its organic and all the microbes in the soil. I will just have to get the elves to steel some from everywhere in the world so it's not noticeable. Hell I might even buy out some compost places just so I can get at lots of good soil right away. But that can be worried about later after the tunnels are all set up, so I have a good night day cycle that will make the plants thrive.
Another thing that was discovered this summer was that assholes finger was fine and twitched when poked with a pin so it is receiving messages. So I took it back off again and slowly ripped it all up and tested everything. It seems almost like the other one I'm comparing except for no finger prints and no minor scars on the finger. I guess my imagination didn't add in finger prints, so that means it's not a perfect copy, I guess we will see with the arm. I ended up bleeding him 3 times over the summer and giving him a replenisher after every time was done. With the blood in a stasis field I ended up having just enough for an arm. When done removing his arm I put on the other one. It ended up taking more spells to get everything back together tendons, nerves and muscles. After that I gave him some nerve regrowth potion and some others that will help to try and rebuild missing parts in a body, but at the same time not good enough to replace them. So with those and the clone arm combined I hope this new arm will work. I will have to use electro shocks on his arm to test if it moves right. But that will be next year to see if it survives.
The final thing that I had make happen was that I got elves to buy any magical book in any language as long as I don't have it, and put it in the library. Sure it would mean I would have to learn another language but I can always have someone translate them or figure out a way for the library to translate them.
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Wow this has been the greatest summer ever. When it started I was not looking forward to go home but then mark showed up. I was worried when he first got ahold of me when I had left the magical side of the station. But when he told me a person would be dumb to do something in broad day light I calmed down. The thing is after our talk I didn't know what to think. When he left after he dumbed all that information on me, I just sat there for a good 20 min thinking if I could somehow find a way back to my uncle and aunts. But if what he said was right, and I had somewhere else to stay or I could just rent a room at the Leaky Cauldron, I would never have to go bad to that hell hole.
The first thing I did when I got up was go to the bathroom and see if I could call Dobby. I wanted see if he wanted to bond with me like mark said. When he did show up he was sooo hyper, it was just so funny watching his head bob all over the place. Once done with the bonding I talked to him about some of the stuff Mark talked about. He did let me know it was the truth about the goblins and vaults because his old master had one that he would go to. With that true I was more inclined to believe everything he said, but I still didn't believe Dumbledore did this to me at the time.
I took my trunk to the information desk and told them my parents didn't show up yet and asked if I could keep it there till they came to get me. They told me there would be a fee and I told them ok, and that my parents would give me money later. Before I had left the trunk I had taken my invisibility cloak and map out just in case I left it here and never came back for it. The cage was already gone when I let Hedwig out and just left the cage by the side of a building. Mark was right Hedwig always knows when I need her or where to go so why did I ever lock her up.
When I made my way to the Leaky Cauldron I put the cloak on and slipped in to the Alley after following someone in. from there I made it to the bank and before going in I took it off and put it in my pocket. When I reached the teller and asked for my Account manager they directed me to a private office. From there I was told yes I do have more than a trust vault. When asked why I didn't have a key I told them I never got one since I was one when my parents died. They told me it was 100g fee to replace a key. When they said this I started wondering if other people used my vaults since I only got the key from Hagrid when I was 11. So I asked if anyone else has a key and they told me there were other keys but they don't bother to check who had them. Right when he said that I became alarmed, and asked if I could get new locks and keys for the vaults. I was told it would be 500g to change all that and give me a new keys. I agreed to this and remembered from mark that goblins do love to put fee's on everything. With that in mind and more points in going to believing in what mark has told me I also asked for a full medical checkup and fixing anything wrong. They told me it could get expensive but guarantied there work.
When the medical check was done they found so much wrong with me because of my living conditions and even something nasty in my scare. All in all they told me it would be 6,000g to remove all spells placed on me, flush my system from potions and remove the soul piece in my head. They then told me it would be another 3,000g for all the potions I would need to take to try and repair all the issues with my body so I don't grow up short like them, and have future medical issues because of my earlier years. God after I found out about all that stuff I was leaning more about not believing in Dumbledore anymore.
When I came back I asked about Potter properties and what else. I was then told my parents liquidated everything but the properties before going into hiding so I ended up having a number of places to live all over the world. When I asked about here they said I did own the cottage but then the ministry took it saying it was a historical site. I asked if they could do that since it was mine and they said that since I didn't dispute it within 90 days it was theirs to take. Ok now that's more reason to believe Mark, in that they are now going to try and get my stuff or discredit me.
I told them I want an apartment I London and I want it warded just as mark told me to do. They then listed off a number of options and what they do along with a price. The pricing was ridiculous but at the same time it was this or possibly die, so I chose not to die and at the same time they told me that I could cast magic under one ward they mentioned. So that means I can practice magic all summer. I agreed to this and told them I would stay in the Leaky till it was ready.
After a while I did get ahold of Mark and we talked again. While I was waiting to see him again I had thought about everything he said. I didn't want to believe half the stuff he said but it made more and more sense. He was even right about the girl situation, if I was a real celebrity I should have people be all over me, like what first happened at the Leaky when I showed up. And I thought back at all the shit Ron has done to me and how he just abandoned me with his jealously at the tournament that I could have died in like Draco. And he had the nerve to tell me that he knew and didn't tell me I was facing dragons. For fucks sake Fleur lost and arm to one of those.
After the second talk with him I figured I could hang around with him, because if he said was true then since Dumbledore wasn't around me anymore and he was doing shit to me or controlling things around me then I sure as hell wouldn't want to be seen around me either. It also helped that he wanted to buy my houses. You would think that would be insulting, but to me it wasn't. The reason it wasn't insulting was that he wanted to buy them. That meant he had enough money or could get it to buy them. So when I thought of that it meant he wasn't after my money like I think Ron is or the Weasley's. Because I was so busy with everything I still had the 1000g on me. I had wanted to give it to the twins to help them but the more I thought about it, why would I just give away money when they didn't do anything to help me during the tasks. God I wish I didn't have to think so much especially when mark said everything around me was conditioning me to be self-sacrificing. I wanted to be a good guy and help people, but he was right I don't have to die to help people because then how can I keep helping them. God damn it he's making me second guess everything I know about this magical world.
So for now I followed what he said when I moved into my new place. I bought a nice sized TV and buying a Nintendo 64 and a play station. I then used my converted funds from my trust vault and bought all the games I could find for those systems. I ended up having to buy a shelf to store all that and it took up a lot of room. While I felt comfortable buying that, I don't think 15 year olds buying furniture wouldn't look strange. So I asked Dobby if he could do anything about the lack furniture. He thought a while and came back with some broken furniture and told me to cast repairo as hard as I could on it. I just shrugged my shoulders and did as he told me to. I didn't believe my eyes when the crappy looking lazy boy he had brought into the house that looked like it was sitting on the street returned to perfect condition. Even the stains had gone away, it was amazing. When I told Dobby this he continued to bring things in and told me to do that to the more damaged things because his magic could do the minor stuff that didn't need new things conjured. With that I had a nice new room that everything matched and Dobby ended up buying me the towels and linens for the place.
After another 2 weeks of just relaxing and playing game I wanted to go out and explore. But I remembered what Mark told me and I had lived in a cupboard all my life, I can resist the temptation for another year. I couldn't believe I was thinking about moving to Hawaii like mark told me. But I hadn't even been to the beach here I didn't know if I would like it. But the more I thought on it the more it sounded like a great idea. Because when I thought about it, the wizarding world hasn't done anything for me and I could drop it if I still had all this money to get away. So I ended up getting ahold of mark a number of times over the summer and when he told me I could be anywhere in the world and we still could hang out I made up my mind. Hawaii here I come.
One thing he did have me do was to speak a whole bunch of things in parseltongue into a tape recorder. I asked him why and he said I had to take care of something and he needed me to say stuff in parseltongue. I just shrugged and figure he will tell me later if he wants.
It's now time for school again but I just keep having to recite my mantra of it's just another year and keep my mouth shut and head down. After that my life if mine and I can do what I want.
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